Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

When a new business idea is incubated and executed successfully, cloners naturally emerge and imitate. To mitigate the investing risks associated with eroding market opportunities due to copycats, investors always look for companies with strong competitive resilience or those that are operating in markets with a high barrier to entry.

Innovation 15

Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? As innovation thought leader Steve Blank notes, a startup is a temporary organization searching for a scalable business model. Push to learn in market.

Innovation 11

Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? But when it comes to core classes which don''t require labs or much in-person faculty interaction, does the current model justify the value-price equation?

Education 10

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies are both operators and investors. Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors. That is not to say people in a large company can’t successfully explore new business models, design remarkable products and experiences, or pursue new markets.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Just in the last month, Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on Lyft and Uber operations.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With the cost of starting digital companies low , local governments stimulating entrepreneurship , and venture capitalists expanding operations , graduates are seeking to become their own bosses right out of college. It is a core continuity management strategy in a market scarce on technology talent.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Specifically, the study found that S&P 500 companies where the founder is still CEO are more innovative, generate 31% more patents, create patents that are more valuable, and are more likely to make bold investments to renew and adapt the business model — demonstrating a willingness to take risk to invent the future.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Radically reduce people dedicated to the old business.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources.

Energy 11

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. Most of the so-called unicorns — startups achieving billion-dollar valuations — are platforms: markets that connects buyers, sellers, and others, with the platform standing between them. They’re not. Sponsored by Accenture.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Long-term Marketing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. stock exchanges.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs present both benefits and disadvantages, as well as threats and opportunities, to the traditional venture capital business model. Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

DNA genetic testing company 23andMe fell behind on its communications with the FDA, resulting in a temporary ban on marketing the company’s personal genetic screening services to the public. Much of corporate venturing today is fragmented and ad hoc. and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. IT Does Matter.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The illusion that equity crowdfunding can work is understandable because superficially it looks like: (1) eBay and other successful online markets; (2) donation crowdfunding, such as Kickstarter ; (3) angel investing in the startup world, which is prevalent (even if not necessarily successful for the average investor).

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed? As with any radically new business model, ICOs have risks.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8